Excerpts from Chapter 13 - ANIMISM
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That realization stirred atavistic memories. Could the fact that people in general do not raid a neighbor’
s pantry when they are not at home, be an ethical force governing social behavior that has nothing to
do with artificial scriptural admonishments? The more I thought about it, the more esoteric my thinking
became. If that sense of unease when we trespass is not simply an indoctrinated cultural imprint, how
much deeper did it go than animals instinctively not straying beyond their territorial boundaries?
Something more than mere survival logic seemed to be at work here. I experienced an epiphany -
concerning the integrity of all organized atomic associations.

Organisms had to have some invisible charismatic force shielding them from alien invasion, or they
would lose their integrity, mutate and distort into something not intended. Without that protective
shield, beauty and harmony of form on the physical plane would not prevail; misshapen ugliness and
chaos would be the norm. In the realm of metaphysics, without that sense of non-trespass, ethical
behavior would not prevail; betrayed trust would impinge on and distort the emotions, and instead of
peace, the rage of revenge would cloud our consciousness.

Did this Stone Age group perhaps not merely rationalize, but also psychically anticipate the pain they
would cause, and therefore refrain from trespassing? That concept transcended mere intellectual
rationale; it made sense only if the Universe was indeed governed by Soul and the ethic of non-
trespass.

For some reason the purity of that moment filled me with a strangely reassuring sense of awe. I felt
that I was almost in touch with some vast Cosmic Over-Soul. Something or someone more
transcendent than ego guarded the ethical borders of social order. It set me to thinking about
quantum mechanics and the particle physicists’ choice of words when they used “charm” and
strangeness” and “beauty” while alluding to the attributes of sub-atomic behavior; the Center of
Consciousness had to lie in the nucleus of the atom.

I wondered about the pangs of chagrin that we all feel at even the slightest transgression on the
common good, not only within ourselves, but also when we are witnesses to the trespass of our
neighbors. Something sacred
seems to be defiled and it bothers us deeply. From whence comes the burn if we ignore subtle
warnings when we cross the invisible line – and why is the fire even fiercer when we are shamed out of
hiding by others?

There was more: What about the foreboding sense of unease we sometimes feel, long before a
harmful trespass occurs? Was the Intuitive Self, unlimited by analytical notions of time and space, able
to warn us of “future”
events? Had we once possessed an active sense of future outcome, a “hunch” of pending unease,
and thereby hesitated and were forewarned before taking a step that would cross the line? Are we
now too intellectually
preoccupied and therefore too desensitized to “heed” the warning before we actually trip and fall? Did
we once have an active 6th sense? Was it now deadened, and if so, why?
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